Juked! Juked! Juked!

Hey, adorable IMBO readers! I have a new story
in Juked today. You can read it online. Free. Totally free. Juked is
such a great journal. Thank you so much to Ryan Ridge, Ashley Farmer and
everyone else at Juked for giving "The Air Between Us" an incredible
home!

This story all started with the oak tree in my back
yard. Almost all of my story ideas come to me while I'm mowing the lawn. My neighbor hated my tree. The wind always blew (tons of) leaves
into his yard. It still does, but the neighbor has sadly left this earth--he was a nice man
actually. The real tree survives and thrives unlike the one in the story. Of course
the neighbor has nothing to do with the story, but I hope you enjoy--or
maybe feel unnerved, unsettled, maybe even deeply troubled by--it anyway. When my mother
read it, the only thing she said was "Wow, that was intense." I'll take it!

Christopher Allen is the author of Conversations with S. Teri O'Type (a Satire),
an episodic adult cartoon about a man struggling with expectations.
Allen's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Juked, Eclectica Magazine's
20th-Anniversary Speculative anthology, Indiana Review, Night
Train, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and over a hundred other great places. Read his book reviews in [PANK],
Necessary Fiction, Word Riot, The Lit Pub, and others. His creative non-fiction has appeared in Connotation Press, Bootsnall Travel, and lots of other fine
places. A finalist at Glimmer Train in 2011, Allen has been nominated
for
Best of the Net, the storySouth Million Writers Award, and
the Pushcart Prize. He is the 2015 recipient of Ginosko Literary Journal's award for flash fiction and in 2016 took third place in the K. Margaret Grossman fiction award given by Literal Latté. Allen is the managing editor of SmokeLong Quarterly.

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Hi, sweet reader. I Must Be Off! is the expat, gluten-free photo-literary travel(b)logue of me, Christopher Allen. It's a visual journey. I hope you'll stop by and comment. You can also find links to my writing there.

My recent work has appeared in [PANK], FRiGG, Matter Press, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and To Carry Her Home: Bath Flash Fiction, Volume One. My debut collection of flash fiction, Other Household Toxins, is forthcoming from Matter Press.